Donald Trump mistakenly quotes scathing New York Times article about him
This morning Donald Trump admitted that his tariffs may raise prices on the most popular of American products, and then misspelled “Amendment” before misspelling someone’s name in an endorsement tweet. By the afternoon he was seeking to top himself in the self-humiliation department, so he brag-tweeted a quote from a New York Times article. Not only is it clear that he didn’t read it first, it doesn’t appear he even read the entire sentence he was quoting.
Donald Trump tweeted “So true” while quoting this sentence from a New York Times article: “Mr. Trump remains the single most popular figure in the Republican Party, whose fealty has helped buoy candidates in competitive Republican primaries and remains a hot commodity among general election candidates.” If you’re wondering if that’s out of context, it is. Trump name-checked Nicholas Fandos as the author, and in response he quickly encouraged people to read “the whole story.” It wasn’t pretty.
The sentence quoted by Donald Trump was buried roughly twenty paragraphs deep into the article, which is otherwise largely about how Trump is deranged and Republicans in Congress don’t know what to do about him. In fact Trump cut the words “For now, though” off the front of the sentence he quoted. One sentence earlier, the article explains that if Republicans do poorly in the midterms, they may join the Democrats in coming out swinging at Trump once Robert Mueller makes his move.
This is not exactly an article that Donald Trump should be trying to bring attention to. It’s largely a scathing expose into what are probably the last days of a failed presidency. It’s also somewhat comical that, even as Trump is going berserk about the New York Times due to the anonymous op-ed it published from one of his own top officials, Trump is now trying to falsely insist that the Times is praising him. Desperate much?
